Beware of Fake Osama bin laden links on web!

I have been receiving posts on my facebook wall that says, “Checkout the photographs of dead Osama” or “Secret Video of Obama Killing”and other similar posts that are nothing but spam fake messages. Once clicked, it gets posted to all my friends’ wall too.

US govt. is yet to decide whether to release photographs of Osama’s body or photos of the D Day, there are plenty of fake photographs that ask you to click; irritatingly is nothing more than a viral chain of wall posts.

Not only facebook walls, since the U.S. led raid that killed bin Laden on Sunday, e-mail inboxes and other social-media sites have been flooded with bad links that, at best, are unwanted spam and, at worst, contain harmful computer viruses.

An e-mail claims to link to a photo of the terror leader holding a newspaper to prove he’s still alive. One e-mail, written in Spanish, uploads a Trojan horse virus when a photo link is clicked. And a phony Facebook page asks users to paste a script in their browsers which, in turn, spams their friends with the same link.

On Wednesday Facebook Security posted a message encouraging users to be careful when clicking questionable links and to use the site’s "Mark As Spam" links to report that content.